So when you mentioned your not having gotten into nursing school as your reason for thinking that women-in-science initiatizes are bad, you weren't implying that this experience informed that opinion.

I feel like the conversation that you're having with this guy is the War on Men in a nutshell. MNC is barely able to form a coherent thought, and is unable to use appropriate punctuation, spelling or grammar. But his inability to qualify for a competitive nursing program is due to women being coddled, of course.

I'm going to respond to you, rather than the troll, for the benefit of those reading:

Thanks. I don't mean to make it sound like Tracie is Hitler or anything. I just wish there was more of a culture of thinking critically about the findings of studies that say things we want to hear. It seems like authors here have gotten really good about that with studies relating to obesity, but equal regard for the…

YES. This bugs the shit out of me in these studies. Most of them are conducted in Europe, where most people are of European descent. There's copious evidence that children of non-white mothers have higher incidence of FAS per the same amount of alcohol consumed compared to white mothers. And that's without getting…

People don't "hate" Macklemore. People who accuse others of hating Macklemore are lumping all criticism of his song "Same Love" as personal hatred of Macklemore himself in order to trade on angry minority stereotypes and discredit their points without having to engage them.

I just wanted to throw out there: There are lots of zoo jobs that aren't directly with animals. I worked with pedigree maintainance and animal breeding for diversity maintainance ages ago, before I went back to school. There's lots of stuff you can find through the AZA to help animals without directly being in the zoo…

A match made in hell!

My husband is still being stalked, almost a decade later, for being a legal observer at an Anonymous protest of Scientology. Granted, LOs are almost on the anti-establishment side, but following a neutral party (full disclosure: he doesn't like them much now) around for YEARS is going to sour a lot of people on your…

Inclined to agree with you. Even in scientific disciplines where women have been a majority or grad school entrants for a while (biology, psychology), the numbers of female faculty haven't caught up.

I think you're right. I'm a biologist, kind of. At the school where I did my grad, the number of female, tenured faculty has been pretty steady over the past 4 decades. The same is true where I am now. And it's much better than computer science, my other primary affiliation. The OP just seems to be rehashing the old…

Kind of and not really. As a scientist, I discriminate against false hypotheses. As a person, I don't discriminate against people for their sex, race or sexual orientation. But its hard to argue that any one individual should be judged by their race, class, sex or creed.

Well, at least you're consistent in believing in the right of employers to discriminate against potential employees.

So, we're back to my original objection ot your comment: I still think it's a problem that girls have to search intently to find strong characters wearing all their clothes, and that the most accessable version of the toy is the one in a bikini. I don't accept that the primary toys accessable to little girls must and…

I think you're discounting the extent to which that advertising works. I might be inclined to buy my kids crap from whatever aisle they want, but that doesn't mean other adults (and peers) in their life will be so neutral.

I still disagree with you on several points:

Did you for real dismiss a comment with more upvotes than yours for disagreeing with you? Because that's some serious butthurt garbage right there. Can't handle an opposing view point?

Hold up here, why is the world sane enough that it's OK for you to discriminate against women because they may or may not choose to get pregnant, but not sane enough that I can choose not to hire potential rapists?

Men commit more rapes than women, and more acts of violence. Is it OK if I decide not to hire men because they might be a health and safety hazard to my employees? After all, it is just a logical conclusion based on crime stats.

Did we get a Kotaku invasion? Every commenter replying to you is dense as a fucking brick.